Teacher Editorial | By Shelley Grey-Sortland (BOLT student)
Head in the Clouds
Cloud computing is one of the emerging education technologies that is impacting teachers and learners, inside and outside the classroom. But what is this ‘cloud’ anyway? Essentially, cloud computing means “storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of your computer’s hard drive” (Griffith, 2016). The image below illustrates how a variety of devices can be used to access a myriad of applications on the cloud. So if you are using the Web to access your data or your programs then you are taking a walk in the clouds!
Title: Cloud Computing Creator: Sam Johnston Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cloud_computing.svg Copyright Information: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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